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I was embarrassed by the photos of cyclist Bobby Lea arriving in Beijing wearing a black mask. Making it worse was finding out he was a local cyclist from Topton. I also was in China last month (three weeks in Beijing and one week in Qingdao) for my sixth Olympics to help with the IOC Athletes Commission elections in the Olympic Village and I only saw two people with white masks. Both were 70-ish women, one on the subway and another pedaling her bicycle (at a nice clip) in Beijing. There were only three days that I could say were smoggy.

by MARTY MUNSON (A free-lance story for The Morning Call) | April 5, 1996

"We had seen this very thin plastic we called UFO," says Floriana Frassetto, co-director of the theater company called Mummenschantz. "The first thing we did was cut it and sew it into two faces. These two faces inflate back and forth ... It's like a butterfly net." Around that grew a sketch for "Parade," the latest show by Mummenschantz, the imaginative company of three that will perform on Wednesday night at Kutztown University. If post-modern means borrowing a little bit from a lot of genres, then this company of nearly 25 years was post-modern before the term was invented.

If Daniel Roebuck could break free of the space-time continuum like the heroes of his new movie "John Dies At The End," he knows exactly where he'd like to go. "I'd go back to Pulley's Five and Dime on the west side of Bethlehem," the actor says. "You could go to Pulley's and get joke gifts as well as the greatest monster masks ever made. "I had to take two buses to get there, but I'd spend the whole day in that place. I'd ask Pulley to see one monster mask after another. And never once did he say, 'Get the hell out of here.' He was a retired cop who had tattoos that he could make dance.

By Amy Longsdorf Special to The Morning Call - Freelance | December 23, 2004

For Gerard Butler, beating out John Travolta, Antonio Banderas and Robert Redford for the title role in the movie adaptation of "The Phantom of the Opera" was the easy part. Figuring out how to get the trademark half-mask to stay in place was a little more challenging. "During all the fittings for the mask, I just held it on with my finger," recalls Butler. "And then, one day, I said, "How is this going to stay on my face, exactly, when I take my hand away?' Immediately, everyone started running around all concerned.

LOWER NAZARETH TOWNSHIP Police cited a 17-year-old Upper Nazareth Township boy for allegedly wearing a gorilla mask Friday to scare an employee of the McDonald's restaurant in Lower Nazareth. Around 5 p.m., the boy sneaked up on foot to a drive-through window on the restaurant at 3708 Easton-Nazareth Highway in the mask and startled the employee at the window, causing the worker to spill a drink. The boy in the mask then left the area in a pickup truck. McDonald's employees were able to get the vehicle's license plate number, and the boy with the mask was located, police said.

A holdup man wearing a ghoul Halloween mask late last night robbed a clerk at the Friendly Family Restaurant at Airport Road and Catasauqua Road in Hanover Township. The robber took an undetermined amount of cash, authorities said. State police at Bethlehem said the suspect entered the restaurant at 10:55 p.m. He wore olive green coveralls and army boots in addition to the mask. The butt of a handgun was seen sticking out of his belt. Troopers said they were told the robber was a Hispanic male, 5 feet, 6 inches tall.

By Joe Warminsky III, Special to The Morning Call -- Freelance | October 15, 2005

HIP-HOP Anything goes on Cartoon Network's late-night Adult Swim shows, so maybe it was inevitable that they would inspire a tribute record by a revered underground rapper (MF Doom) and a precocious DJ/producer (Danger Mouse). The big surprise of "The Mouse And The Mask" is its general accessibility -- even though it deftly celebrates 'toons such as "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" and "Sealab 2021," the disc could easily be about some other bizarro hip-hop neighborhood trapped in the verbose Doom's head.

Two men in Halloween masks tried to hold up the Getty Mart at 1505 Pembroke Road, Bethlehem, on Sunday. Bharesk Shelat told police a man wearing a gorilla mask and another in a ghost mask entered the store at 8:38 p.m. and demanded money. He said the man in the ghost mask appeared to be armed with a small gun. Mukund Shelat was in a rear office and saw what was happening. He sounded the store alarm and called police. Police said the robbers then saw several customers walking toward the store and fled through the front door.

ALLENTOWN Allentown police are investigating a possible attempted abduction. An 11-year-old girl told them a masked man with a kitchen knife chased her on her way to school. The girl said the man, who was wearing a red ski mask over his face, began chasing her shortly before 8 a.m. at Fountain and Gordon streets, police said. He stopped running after her a few blocks away, police said. The man, who didn't say anything to the girl, also was wearing a blue sweater, blue gym pants and black combat boots, according to a report.

BETHLEHEM A man wearing a ski mask and pretending to have a gun robbed a Bethlehem pizza shop Monday, police said. The man, who wore dark clothing, approached a cashier about 6 p.m. at Victory 1 Pizza, 1230 N. New St., with his right hand inside his fleece sweater to give the appearance that he had a weapon, police said. After demanding the cashier open the register, the robber reached in and took about $200, police said. He fled in an unknown direction.